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Originally Posted by cswannabe
3. You'd mentioned that you had dropped out of the masters program, do you think that a degree is not as important once you have enough work experience? Are you planning to go back and complete it someday?
I do not think a degree is important, and I think often it can be distracting to pursue that instead of fun stuff that interests you. The problem with a degree is after a certain point, you may find that you are just taking the classes to graduate rather than trying to learn. You also may find that you retain more information from random articles and YouTube videos than an entire class on a subject. Moreover, your GPA and coursework may give you a false sense of confidence in yourself, and it's important to distance yourself from that feeling because everyone has a decent GPA and everyone completes difficult sounding coursework, and you need to feel driven to do more than that to compete with them.
Having said all of that, I have four courses left to graduate, which at this point in my education, can also be read as "I need to spend 17,000 dollars more to graduate". My wife really wants me to finish though, so maybe I will once our kids are out of daycare (which costs more than $17,000 per year
).